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Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation's Heart Health Mobile application, or app, has been named the winner of a national contest that challenged participants to create a program that would help improve heart health.

A team from the research foundation's Biomedical Informatics Research Center developed the app for the Department of Health and Human Services' Million Hearts Risk Check Challenge, part of an initiative to prevent a million heart attacks and strokes in the U.S. by 2017.

The research foundation received $100,000 for maintenance and updates to the app. Project manager ...